For decades the issue seemed moot.

The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering Strait and migrating south through an ice-free passage between two great glaciers blanketing the continent.

But after years of sifting through data from diverse and surprising sources, the maverick scientists whose stories Lost World follows have found evidence to overthrow the "big-game hunter" scenario and reach a new and startling and controversial conclusion: The first people to arrive in North America did not come overland -- they came along the coast by water.In this groundbreaking book, award-winning journalist Tom Koppel details these provocative discoveries as he accompanies the archaeologists, geologists, biologists, and paleontologists on their intensive search.

Lost World takes readers under the sea, into caves, and out to the remote offshore islands of Alaska, British Columbia, and California to present detailed and growing evidence for ancient coastal migration.

By accompanying the key scientists on their intensive investigations, Koppel brings to life the quest for that Holy Grail of New World prehistory: the first peopling of the Americas.

For more information about the title Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:

Prehistoric America: A Journey through the Ice Age and Beyond — When human beings first arrived in North America at the end of the last Ice Age, they encountered a teeming variety of animals, from ground sloths ...  > read more

The First American: The Suppressed Story of the People Who Discovered the New World — Forty years ago, an amateur prehistorian discovered an engraved mastodon bone near Mexico City, showing a virtual bestiary from the Ice Age. ...  > read more

Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization — What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ...  > read more

Ice Age Mammals of North America — The time is the Pleistocene epoch, about 2 million to 10,000 years ago. Continent-size ice sheets cover 30 percent of the earth's landmass, and ...  > read more

Author: Tom Koppel

Publisher: Atria

Date: Oct. 4, 2005

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